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SENATE CONSIDERS A COMPUTER ARMY FOR CRISES
By JOSEPH GALLIVAN
September 28, 2001
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Techies to the rescue!
Local computer buffs are saying the Sept. 11 World Trade Center
attacks showed how desperately unprepared the city was from an
information technology standpoint - and Washington is set to do
something about it.
"This country needs the equivalent of a National Guard for IT
professionals," said Silicon Alley honcho Andrew Rasiej, founder of
the charity MOUSE, which helps wire public schools.
While land and cell phones were overloaded, New Yorkers wandered the
city with pictures of missing relatives "like Kosovans," said Rasiej,
who found there was no easy way to use his tech skills when disaster
struck.
There were several overlapping databases of missing people and of
hospital admissions and no way for the Red Cross to tally the massive
number of donations they received, according to Rasiej.
His idea is that thousands of techies be on standby, as is the
National Guard, to build networks and get information flowing as soon
as a disaster happens - man-made or natural. "If in every city there
were 5,000 laptops and 5,000 cell phones ready for requisition, it
would be a start. The Red Cross doesn't have 5,000 IT professionals
ready to roll up their sleeves; nor does the National Guard."
Rasiej's idea has raised the interest of Ron Wyden, the Oregonian who
chairs the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Technology and
Space. He has written to tech leaders such as Bill Gates, Steve
Ballmer, Carly Fiorina, Lou Gerstner, Andy Grove and Steve Case,
inviting them to
Washington next week for hearings on what could turn into the
National Emergency Technology Guard.
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